Dr. Lynn Stauffer
Professor and Chair, Computer Science Department
Director, Academic Resources and Planning, School of Science & Technology
Director, SSU MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement) Program
Sonoma State University
Office: Darwin 116D
Phone: (707) 664-2268
Email: lynn.stauffer@sonoma.edu
MESA is an academic program that supports educationally disadvantaged students to attain four-year degrees in science fields.
MESA Centers are located at UC, CSU, and independent university campuses. MESA provides rigorous support through a variety of
components and reinforces these components through establishment of a peer community based on academic achievement. This
community provides students, most of whom are first in their family to go to college, with mutual support and motivation.
This academic community is what sets MESA apart from other programs. Learn more by visiting the SSU MESA website.
Fall 2009 Schedule
- Office Hours
- Monday 1:00-2:00pm, Tuesday 1:00-2:00pm, Wednesday 10:00-11:00am, Thursday 2:00-4:00pm or by appointment.
Contact the CS Administrative Coordinator, Gina Voight (gina.voight@sonoma.edu, (707) 664-2667), to schedule an appointment.
- Academic Advising
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Contact the CS Administrative Coordinator, Gina Voight (gina.voight@sonoma.edu, (707) 664-2667), to schedule an appointment.
- CS 101 Intro to Computers and Computing
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Lab 02
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Monday 10:00-11:50pm
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Darwin 25
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(Lecture M & W 9:00-9:50am in Ives 101)
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Lab 16
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Thursday 11:00-12:50pm
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Darwin 25
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(Lecture T 11:00-12:50pm in Ives 101)
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- CS 497 Internship
Computer Science major, Joe Andresen, throws pie at Dr. Stauffer as part of Math Club's Pi Day festivities 2007.
(That's Dr. Stauffer behind the paper plate.) Joe paid extra to get close up and personal.
Educational Background
Dr. Stauffer received her Ph.D. from the
Information and Computer Science Department
at the University of California, Irvine.
Research
Dr. Stauffer's primary research interests are in the
design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. She is
particularly interested in the field of data compression. She has
also worked with undergraduates doing research in programming languages, expert systems,
database design and most recently computational geometry.
Data compression attempts to reduce the size of an input file by removing
redundancy and is useful in many storage, communication,
and security applications. One area of Dr. Stauffer's research considers
parallel data compression where data is manipulated simultaneously by a collection
of parallel processors. Her work includes compression methods on the
systolic array and Xnet parallel machine models. On the Parallel
Random Access Machine (PRAM), a theoretical model of parallel
computation, Dr. Stauffer has published work on sublinear-time
compression and she is investigating the extension of these research
findings to include other existing computational models.
Other Interests
- Sonoma State Univerity Student Chapter of the ACM
- More information can be found at the Computer Club website.
- Women in CS Group (WICS)
- This informal group works to
support women in the computer science program at SSU. Gatherings are held
approximately every month with a loose topic for discussion. Previous meetings have
focused on issues and coping
strategies for women in computer science. See WICS.